I mentioned MySociety's hack nights on the list before, but just to let you
know that the evenings are going strong, and it would be great to see more
mongers attend and show what you can do with Perl for civic hacking.
There's no single project or language focus, it's all about getting
interested hackers to meet and discuss and work on things that interest
them, and see what happens!
Some of the projects so far do interact with MySociety's tools -- scraping
Leveson to import it into SayIt, or working on a front-end to contextualise
campaigns for WriteToThem. But others are completely standalone, like
community-building in post-conflict societies and mountain rescue in Wales.
More details below!
osf'
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From: Myfanwy Nixon <myf at mysociety.org>
Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Subject: mySociety weekly civic tech hack nights
To: open-government at lists.okfn.org
Hello all,
mySociety are running weekly hack nights at the Open Data
Institute<http://lanyrd.com/venues/london/vzyh/>,
with an emphasis on civic tech and open data.
You'd be very welcome to join us - every Wednesday night from 6:00 to 9:00
pm. Full details
here<http://www.mysociety.org/2013/07/25/hack-nights-your-weekly-wednesday-civic-tech-get-together/>
.